Long time no post

Howdy!

I hope you are doing well. It is SO HOT here it's hard to stay cool unless you are inside or in the water! But the days are so beautiful it's kinda worth the melting. :)

Had to go back and check at the date of my last post and I can't believe it's been almost three months! Not that I'm a prolific blogger or anything of the sort, but sheesh it seems as if it was just a couple of weeks ago.

I've been working on a few different things...

New Layouts-

I have a stack of layouts without an album to put them in! I never do this, but I ran out of AC 3 ring albums and finally just placed an order with them today. Hopefully they'll get here soon because this kills me!

Here are some of them...

My Birthday Party-

One of the layouts that I made to commemorate my birthday party this year with some of my guests.

 It was extra special because in addition to my immediate family and very special friends I was able to celebrate with my cousins and my aunt!! They've been living in Costa Rica for years and I miss them more than words can express. My cousin Sergio, who has always been more like a brother even though we aren't even blood related :), had a bone marrow transplant last year. He has been through SO much. But thanks to his unwavering faith and thousands of prayers that were and continue to be sent up in his name he is living a happy healthy life now! PRAISE GOD!

I felt as if I was celebrating my 4th birthday instead of my 42! LOL We had SO much fun and laughed SO hard...I had NO voice the next day! I even made them sing Happy Birthday to me 2xs just like the kids always do! hahahahahaha Good Times! 

I LOVE this tag! Isn't it fun and cute? I got them HERE. Check out her other stuff SO cute! My first order came super quick, but then I placed one on 5/25 and *just* got it yesterday :( I'm SO impatient when it comes to super cuteness like this, but it really is worth the wait!

Jessie's Junior Banquet-

It seems as if all we've done for the last few months is buy formal dresses for the girl! Oh em geee she's had so many events...banquet, boyfriend's prom, ring ceremony, NHS, graduations, etc etc etc

One of my favorite photos of all the events is this one, the night of her junior banquet. I thought my little girl looked like a princess! I am SO happy that she likes to dress on the conservative side. We saw some dresses that should be Illegal! LOL This one was much prettier in person I just couldn't do it justice with my horrible photo skills! ugh!

For this layout I used the new MME collection Be Amazing with some Be Happy. I can't get enough of it I love it so much! And the Amy Tangerine Thickers are my favorites now. That font and print is awesome.

My Own Sweet Angel in Heaven-

Ahhh. Can't say much about this one because the waterworks automatically start.

 

This is my dad and me on my 1st birthday! My parents always gave me the BEST birthday parties. He was the BEST dad. ever. *sigh* Such beautiful memories. Can't you just *see* the joy in his eyes.  Even as an adult I would walk in a room and his eyes would light up! I. MISS. HIM...terribly. :(

I LOVE this new Dear Lizzy line. I think I like it better than her last release. I've used it now a few times and I don't get tired of it. She's already working on a new collection I can't wait to see it! 

Mini Golf Date Night-

These two are SO sweet together. I am so grateful that God has put such an awesome boy in my daughter's path to share her first "real boyfriend" experience. They've been together for 14 months and we have nothing but great things to say about him and their relationship. Really special.  

 This is a lift of a page maps contributor/sketch and I just had to recreate it. This photo altered the colors a little from this Pink Paislee Praire Hill collection but it's such a pretty collection and the color combo is so totally me.

My First full size quilt!-

Years ago I started a block of the month quilt project with some kits from Joann's...the pattern/fabrics weren't me at all so although I finished the quilt top I never finished the quilt itself. I've made a blouse and skirt in high school for home ec...and we had to wear it to school! LOL I got an A but OMG it was so ugly! And I've made several costumes for my daughter and curtains, pillows, etc but I've never made a quilt!

Then last year I discovered Quilt for Kids and ended up making 2 crib sized quilts for them. I was really excited that I had started and finished them. Shortly after I received an email from them with a photo of what looked like 100's of quilts stacked up because they didn't have enough $ to ship them to the hospitals/police stations, etc...what?!?  That made me so sad. 

So this year I decided that come summer I was going to make my first full size quilt!!! It *was* supposed to be for a birthday gift coming up, but Jessie saw the prints and claimed it for herself! I'm using Moda's Modern Vintage line! SO cute and pretty!

I've done a LOT of cutting and even more sewing and I'm almost done with the quilt top. God wiling tomorrow I'll go get the backing and binding fabrics, the batting and I'm even going to FREE MOTION QUILT IT MYSELF! Yes, I'm crazy, but it beats paying 100's of dollars for someone to do it for me. I'm not doing anything fancy either a medium stipple or straight lines OR in the ditch. I think I might let Jessie pick...we'll see LOL.

Well I have 12 more new layouts,  Project Life, Birthday album and some new Life Handmade goodies to share, but OMG I don't know WHY it takes me SOOOO long to post a new entry...I started this one yesterday! LOL

Well, I'm going to start dinner now so we can be ready for this tonight....

GOOOOOOOOOOOO HEAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTT!!!!! :)

Until next time... :)

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